I was fortunate to be awarded second prize in the 13th Annual Mainichi Daily News Haiku Contest for 2009. The poem was published in January 2010 in the contest magazine.

Wind in the reeds/Like the sea, I am a long way/from my childhood.

The December exhibition at Yagahashi department store was very successful with more than 500 visitors over 6 days and 6 sold works.

Preparations for framing are now in progress and I plan to exhibit 31 or 32 paintings and drawings at the exhibition in December. If you live in Kumagaya, drop by Yagihashi 5F Art Salon from December 9 - 15th. Opening hours are 10am to 7pm except for the final day which ends at 4pm.

I now have a fan page for AKjapan; my online works on paper gallery.
click here to see it.

You can now follow or 'befriend' me on Facebook as Andrea Kobayashi (look for the blue bird).

The 6x 8 exhibition which was scheduled for a gallery in Mallorca this September has been moved to The Netherlands in 2010. My thanks to Neco Beth for organising this.

You can now follow me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/andreakobay

I am continuing to update and reorganise this website. I have added new sub-folders to the Landscape Painting and Drawing folder and I am slowing catching up on catalogue information; dates, dimensions etc. More work is listed as available through paypal too.

December 9-15, 2009, at Yagahashi department store Art Salon, Kumagaya, Saitama. I will be exhibting oil paintings and haiga, about 30 works in all. I will be revising prices prior to this exhibition.

Unfortunately! The owner of the hotel where the gallery is location had issues with the exhibition. Neco Beth, the organiser, had put a lot of hard work into curating it so it is very disappointing.

I have been invited to participate in the 6x8 Exhibition at the Gallery La Tafona in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from September 27th to October 7th, 2009. I will be exhibiting 6 drawings from Karasu/Yatagarasu.

I have selling art online since October 2007. Now you can buy my original works through this website via PayPal. Click on the sale price next to the work and you will be redirected in a new window to Paypal. If you have any inquiries about works without a list price or about shipping and delivery times, please contact me.

Some of my larger works on paper, including Yatagarasu with Dots and Waterfall Ghosts will be exhibited in the Japanese Spirit exhibition at the Opera Gallery, Budapest from July 4-11 2009.

I have started a special interest blog for The Armchair Antiquarian.
You can see it here:
The Armchair Antiquarian

I am pledging 100% of the sales from my small works on paper shop to the Australian Red Cross bushfire relief appeal until March 30th 2009. As I am revamping the shop in April, many items are reduced, so you can get an original art bargain and make a useful donation at the same time!

I moved at the beginning of 2009 and will set up a new studio in Oizumimachi, Gunma this year.

This is a new project for me. I have a few online projects linked together on my blog dukaduka
Here you can see folios of my work clearly and easily. I write about recent studio work on my blog, I am very active on flickr, and I have a couple of online venues where some of my original work is available. I am happy to receive enquiries about my work.